Additional info: Teri Weigel was destined for fame. How she achieved that goal
is a remarkable story.
The third of five children, Teri was raised within a devoutly
Catholic family in the conservative city of Deerfield Beach,
Florida. A natural beauty, she began modeling in her teens,
appearing in catalogs for Saks Fifth Avenue and other
high-end companies. She later moved to New York and signed
with a major modeling agency, which placed her in "Seventeen"
magazine and other publications. Modeling gigs in Europe
followed. Upon her return to Florida, Teri entered her first
beauty contest and was named Miss Deerfield in 1979.
As a result of Teri's lingerie work for Saks and others,
Playboy Magazine soon came calling. She did some test shots
for the magazine, and was asked to become a Centerfold. Teri
graced the cover of the November '85 issue, and appeared as
the Centerfold in April 1986. Teri found posing nude
liberating, and she enjoyed the fame and money that came with
being a Playboy Centerfold.
Teri worked for Playboy for a couple of years, producing
several well-received videos. But company gigs eventually
became fewer and fewer. Worse, Playboy refused to help
promote her mainstream television and film work, which ranged
from multiple appearances on Fox's "Married With Children" to
roles in "Predator 2", "Sacrifice" with Al Pacino, "Marked
for Death" with Steven Seagall, "Sunset" with Bruce Willis
and James Garner, and cult genre flicks such as "Auntie Lee's
Meat Pies" with Karen Black, "Cheerleader Camp" and John
Landis's "Innocent Blood".
It quickly became obvious that Teri had outlived her
usefulness as a Centerfold, and Playboy unceremoniously
kicked her to the curb. (It was the beginning of an
acrimonious relationship that continues to this day.) As
mainstream jobs became increasingly fewer, Teri finally
considered a career in hardcore porn - something no other
Playboy Centerfold had ever done (or has done since). Because
of this decision, Teri became persona non grata within
Playboy, which has gone to extraordinary lengths to squelch
her porn career. In one notable example, Hugh Hefner actually
called Bob Guccione asking him not to make Teri a Penthouse
Pet. As a result, she has appeared only in smaller
pictorials.
Wisely capitalizing on her fame and exposure a Centerfold,
Teri quickly became a sensation within the porn industry. She
had her breasts enlarged (something she says she did for her
own self-esteem, not because she had to) and almost
immediately achieved superstar status as a result of her
remarkable enthusiasm as a performer. To date she has made
nearly 50 adult videos, and recently signed a 12-film deal
with a new company. Much of Teri' continued success is a
result of her uncanny ability to re-invent herself within an
industry infamous for using then tossing aside its talent,
and this has kept her in the forefront for nearly a decade.
Over the years Teri has become involved in nearly every
aspect of adult entertainment. In addition to making hardcore
videos, she has appeared in numerous magazine pictorials,
been a regular on the national dance circuit. She has also
participated in a number of porn-related Internet ventures,
including "Sex Survivor 2000," in which several porn
performers were placed in a house and encouraged to have as
much sex as possible while subscribers watched. The project
ultimately failed (primarily as a result of poor planning on
the part of the producers) but the event once again proved
Teri's value as a porn princess.
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